A seminar series looking at the broad spectrum of research and projects being undertaken within global health across the University. The series will run from September 2013 to June 2014 taking place monthly on the 2nd Tuesday from 08:30-09:30am, with the venue rotating through Little France, George Square and King's buildings. Preventing suicides from pesticide poisoning in rural Asia Professor Michael Eddleston (Professor Clinical Toxicology, Edinburgh University Tuesday 11 March 2014, 8.30am Tuesday 11 March 2014, 9.30am Blackford Seminar Room, Postgraduate Education Centre, Little France 51 Little France Crescent EH16 4SA Edinburgh The Hygiene Hypothesis in Global Health - Parasites and the Diseases of Modernity Professor Rick Maziels (Director, Edinburgh Infectious Diseases) Tuesday 11 February 2014, 8.30am Tuesday 11 February 2014, 9.30am Room 715, Swann Building, King's Buildings, Edinburgh Conflict of Interest, Non-Communicable Diseases and Global Health Governance: Beyond Tobacco Exceptionalism Professor Jeff Collin (Director, Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh) Tuesday 14 January 2014, 8.30am Tuesday 14 January 2014, 9.30am Seminar Room 4, Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15A George Square The increasing global burden of HPV cancers and their prevention Professor Heather Cubie (Head, University-based Human Papillomavirus Group) Tuesday 10 December 2013, 8.30am Tuesday 10 December 2013, 9.30am Seminar Room 3, Chancellors Building, Little France Healthcare service delivery in Malawi - a Malawian trainee surgeon's perspective Dr Lughano Kalongolera (College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi) Wednesday 27 November 2013, 5.30pm Wednesday 27 November 2013, 7.00pm Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Medical School, Teviot Place, EH8 9AG mHealth and Design Thinking in Low Income Countries: The Medic Mobile Story Isaac Holeman (Co-founder, MedicMobile) Friday 15 November 2013, 12.30pm Friday 15 November 2013, 2.00pm Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Teviot Place (Doorway 3, 1st floor) Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health in Africa - Neglect or Negligence? Professor Sue Welburn (Director, Global Health Academy) Tuesday 12 November 2013, 8.30am Tuesday 12 November 2013, 9.30am Room 7.15, Swann Building, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh Further information and booking Tea/coffee and croissants will be provided. Publication date 18 Jun, 2015
